The international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is expected to confirm that Iran has scaled back its atomic activities in line with the agreement.

Billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets are expected to be released and the sale of Iranian oil on the world market will again be permitted.

Iran’s press anticipates lifting of sanctions

Many newspapers have hailed “good days ahead” for the economy, but the hardline press has lamented nuclear restrictions, with Vatan-e Emruz declaring closing the Arak reactor amounted to a “nuclear burial”.

Moderate Iran and reformist Mardom Salari feared Saudi Arabia and US Republicans would try to sabotage the deal, the latter predicting that “powerful hands will try to boobytrap this path”.

Meanwhile Conservative Hemayat said the nuclear deal would not “resolve the problem with the village chief” – referring to the US – and hardline Keyhan argued that the deal had not led to a let-up in US “anti-Iranian propaganda”.